Well since then the Warriors, fresh from setting the regular season record for wins in 2015-16 with 73 wins, added MVP caliber Kevin Durant in the next salvo of their arms race with the Cavaliers. Crucial postseason roles had been played by Avery Bradley, Terry Rozier, Gerald Green and Jonas Jerebko - all having arrived outside the lottery.

Jaylen Brown is listed as questionable with a right hip pointer. This lopsided defeat had provided them with reality, and from where they stood that reality was not so bad. James only scored 11 points during the game, and was without any during the games last 18 minutes.

The Cavaliers, who sat their starters for the entire fourth quarter, begin their third straight NBA Finals series against the Golden State Warriors next Thursday in Oakland.

"I think as a coach, you always believe you can win the next game because you believe you can win the next possession", Stevens said. (We won) Game 3 and we nearly had Game 4; I was at home cheering and getting even more hyped, jumping up. He needed 28 points to pass Jordan. And while he never had any monster games for the Celtics (his career-high is 20 points), when given the opportunity, he was a steady contributor.

The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Boston Celtics 135-102 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Thursday night to set up a NBA Finals rematch with the Golden State Warriors.

"We were all disappointed in the way we ended this season", said Bradley. "I thought we played a little too haphazard tonight".

Cavs coach Tyronn Lue made a potentially risky move by keeping LeBron in the game after he got four fouls in the first half. The result was that the Cavaliers went on to win the final three games of the series and capture the franchise's first title.

After playing three halves against the Cavaliers, the Celtics said Thomas was done for the season.

Every once in a while, a rivalry teases us with potential long-term appeal, but it rarely develops the inertia required to cast itself over the game over the course of several years.

Isaiah Thomas on suggestion Celtics are better without him: "I kind of laugh at it now, the people who say stupid things like that". Not to be left out of the fun, LeBron stopped everything just so he could take a selfie with his boys.

There has been a trilogy of championship showdowns across the Tasman, where in the early 1960s St George recorded a hat-trick over Western Suburbs in a competition that preceded the NRL, but that again featured a restricted field of 10 teams.

But the Celtics have the No. 1 pick in the draft, along with the salary cap space to sign a top free agent. "I didn't have it", said James, addressing the team's loss. Golden State feels it has a score to settle after what happened a year ago, while the Cavs want to topple a franchise built for a sustained run of titles with the addition of Durant.

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Rangers: 3B Adrian Beltre (right calf) went 4 for 6 with a double in six innings in an extended spring training game. The fans were even more delighted when the diminutive infielder threw his batting helmet down in frustration.

It's the matchup most expected, the matchup most predicted, and probably the matchup the Cavaliers and Warriors wanted as well. The Cavs have yet again shown a unique knack for elevating individual and team performances when they are required most.

The newspaper cited anonymous US officials who were briefed on intelligence reports on intercepted Russian communications. In an earlier tweet Sunday, Trump hailed what he called the trip's "great success".

The statement also said he left the United Kingdom in mid-April and had been under surveillance about a month and a half. They said they would formally name the victims after forensic post-mortems, which would take four or five days.

The Warriors in the regular season were dominate as well, scoring 115.9 points per game , and allowing just over 104. Lue said he started his game planning for the Warriors after the Cavs returned home from Boston early Friday.

Brook landed his best punches of the fight in the eighth round as he began to find the openings he had been waiting for. Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed that the pair are expected to make their ring walks at around 10.30pm.

Officers also raided a property in the Moss Side area of the city early Thursday and carried out a controlled explosion. British police on Wednesday made three more arrests over the attack, after detaining a 23-year-old man on Tuesday.

So much so that this one theater chain, Alamo Drafthouse (in Austin, Texas) has reserved two shows for only women, on 6 June. Similar to Gadot's definition of feminism, Jenkins seems to be a firm believer in absolute equality between both sexes.

Speaking to the SEC Network, Holbrook said he thought the Gamecocks were "definitely in" when it came time for NCAA at-large bids. Mississippi State did respond with a run of its own in the second inning after getting a couple of runners on by singles.

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